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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID M. BLOOH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

POSTAG E-STAM P HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 407,509, dated July 23,1889.

Application filed August 16, 1888. gerial No. 282,892. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- 7

Be it known that I, DAVID M. BLOCH, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and Improved Postage-Stamp Holder, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description;

My invention relates to a device adapted more particularly for holdinpostage-stamps and protecting them from dust and moisture while in apocketable and readily-portable form, and conveniently at hand, with apencil or pen and an eraser, which may be used in addressing letters orpackages, the stamps to mail which may be supplied from the holder. r

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction of thestamp-holder, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters 'of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

- holder, with the stamps removed and the cap in place, the pencil-pointbeing shown in side elevation. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of amodified form of the stamp-holder, withthe cap'removed and as applied toa pencil; and Fig. lillustrates another slightly modified form of thestamp-holder, also'with the cap removed and shown on a pencil.

I prefer to make the base portion of the postage-stamp holder in theform of an elongated hollow and open-botto1ned tube A, providing aninterior cavity or chamber a, in which the pointed end I) of an ordinaryleadpencil B may be accommodated, to prevent breaking of thepencil-lead; or this portion A may receive the back end of a shortpencil to provide for using the pencil more conveniently, or a penpointor knife-blade may be guarded in and by the tube. I show the tube A inFigs. 1 and 2 provided with an internal pressed screw-thread to assure amore secure connection to the pencil by screwing it thereon; but thisscrew-thread may be dispensed with and the tubular base or pencil-socketmay be split, as shown at a in Figs. 3 and 4, to give it a yieldingclamping action on the pencil.

The outer portion of the tube A, which forms the base or bottom of thepostage-stamp holder, is preferably reduced in diameter at c, to receivethe inner end of atubular cap 0, which may or may not be provided at itsouter end with an ordinary eraser D, (shown on the caps in Figs. 1 and3,but omitted from the cap shown in Fig. 4,)the outer end of which isclosed by the metal of which the cap is formed. This tubular cap may besnugly fitted to a plain shoulder at c on the holderbase, to keep itsplace by friction alone, as shown in Fig. 1; or the cap may be fitted tothe base-shoulder by a screw-threaded joint, 1

as shown in Fig. 3; or the cap may be fitted well-known bayonet-jointconnection shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings.

The most important feature of my invention consists of a pin or spindleE, which is fixed to the base or one end of the postagestamp holder andprojects therefrom sufficiently far to allow one or more rows of postageor other stamps F to be attached to and wound around it until the rollof stamps so formed or applied will quite fill the interior chamber f ofthe tubular cap 0 around the pm.

In the preferred construction the stampholding pin or spindle E isprovided with a central lengthwise slit 6, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 ofthe drawings, which allows the end of the series of stamps to be caughtin the slit to hold them prior to turning the pin or spindle around byturning the base or pencil or pen sheath or guard-tube with one handwhile the stamps are held or pressed toward the pin by the other hand,and when the stamps are all rolled onto the pin and each the slit or forallowing the stamps to be easily slipped into the slit from theextremity of the pin.

Instead of using the pin or spindle E, provided with a slit 6, in whichthe stamps will be held or clamped, as above described, I may use a pinor spindle E, (shown in Fig. 3,) provided with one or more teeth orbarbs e, on which to catch the stamps prior to winding them onto thepin; or a plain pin or spindle E (shown in Fi 4) may be used, on whichto wind the stamps, and should this pin be made of wood the marginaladhesive strip or ribbon at the end of one or more rows of stamps mayreadily be moistened and gumm ed to the pin prior to winding the stampson it.

The drawings represent the stamp pin or spindle made long enough toaccommodate two rows of stamps, which will be unwound from the pin andseparated at their perforated divisions, as they are required for use;but the holder may be made shorter to acco1nmodate but one row of stampswhen rolled up, or it may be made longer to hold three or more rows ofstamps, as the desired form or style of the holder may make necessary.

I may make the stamp-holder entirely separate from a pencil or pen orknife-blade guard or sheath, like or substantially like the tubularshank or base A shown in the drawings; but the combination of apostagestamp holder with such a pencil or pen guard or sheath makes avery desirable and convenient article whether the tubular cap whichconfines and protects the stamps is provided with an eraser-cap orhead-piece or not, as i will readily be understood.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with the base-piece and apin or spindle secured at its lower end thereto and having alongitudinal slit extending from its upper end downwardly, the

upper end of said slit being open to admit of the insertion of a stampor stamps from said upper end, of a tubular cap closed at its upper end,passed downward over the pin or spindle, and fitting at its lower openend over the base or part thereof and removable bodily from said baseand pin, substantially as set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a combined pencil-tip, eraser,and stampholder, consisting in the sleeve A, a pin or spindle secured atits lower end to the upper end of the sleeve, said upper end forming abase therefor, a separate and independent tubular cap or cover C, inclosing said pin or spindle and fitting at its lower openend upon theupper end of the sleeve A, and an eii'aser D, separate and independentfrom the rod and closing the upper end of the cap or cover C, the cover6 and its eraser D being bodily removable together upwardly or outwardlyfrom the sleeve A and pin E, substantially as set forth.

DAVID M. BLOCH.

Vitnesscs:

HENRY L. Goonwrn, EDGAR TATE.

